Immigrant Crime Rates in Germany

One of the problems critics of mass immigration face is that there aren’t that many concrete statistics on their crime rates (substantially thanks to European institutions being in the habit of forbidding the gathering of said race/ethnicity data).

But things do leak through every now and then and more often than not they tend to confirm the hateful stereotypes.

Latest example: The German Federal Criminal Office compiles data on “nationality of suspect” across different criminal categories current up to 2014 (see Table 62). In the last year before the Great Migration, immigrants without german citizenship – accounting for less than 10% of the population – were responsible for 18% of rapes and 30% of murders. One enterprising fellow who presumably prefers to remain anonymous compiled a big infographic combining the criminal and demographic data to produce estimates of criminality rates by different crime categories and country of origin. (The infographic is attached at the bottom of this post, which the stats for perhaps the two most important/topical indicators, homicide rates and rape rates, are reprinted).

Murder / 100,000

Country of Origin

Murder Rates

Lebanon

23

Tunisia

14

Algeria

12

Afghanistan

9

Albania

8

Iraq

7

Somalia

6

Morocoo

6

Iran

6

Russia

6

Turkey

5

Serbia

5

Pakistan

4

Syria

3

Nigeria

3

Eritrea

3

Bosnia

3

Kosovo

3

Poland

2.9

Brazil

2.6

Greece

2

France

2

Vietnam

2

Romania

1

Italy

1

USA

0.9

Germany

0.8

Spain

0.6

UK

0.4

Netherlands

0

India

0

Thailand

0

China

0

Sexual Assault/Rape Rates / 100,000

Country of Origin

Sexual Assault/Rape Rates

Algeria

36

Tunisia

32

Somalia

29

Aghanistan

24

Lebanon

24

Pakistan

21

Iraq

18

Nigeria

16.7

Albania

15

Eritrea

15

Iran

14

Morocco

13.4

Serbia

10

Romania

10

Syria

9.3

India

9

Turkey

8

Kosovo

7.4

Bosnia

7

USA

6

Brazil

5

Italy

5

Poland

4

Greece

4

Russia

3.9

Spain

3.6

Netherlands

3.5

Vietnam

3.5

Germany

3

France

3

Thailand

3

UK

3

China

2.5

Frankly even I was rather surprised by some of these figures – perhaps not so much the figures on rape, but I do find the killer performance of the likes of Lebanon, Tunisia and Algeria in the homicide rates to be unduly impressive. After all, according to international homicide rate statistics, the Maghreb is actually rather civilized – 2.2/100,000 in Tunisia and Morocco, and a mere 0.7/100,000 in Algeria (lower than in Germany itself at 0.8/100,000). Lebanon for all its chaos is also at 2.2/100,000. Homicide rates are the one major type of crime that can be reliably measured across countries, so that actually makes them safer than large chunks of Eastern Europe, including Poland before the 2000s. But for some reason when they come to Europe their homicide rates soar by an order of magnitude.

What could be the cause? Lower migrant quality relative to their average population? Being overwhelmingly drawn from ethnic groups with a higher relative proposensity towards violence? (hbd*chick noticed that a disproportionate number of Muslim terrorists in the Paris Attacks had Berber backgrounds; does this extend to “ordinary” criminal violence?). Or perhaps this is one case where it is not so much a case of ethnicity as of culture – namely, traditional and/or authoritarian societies being better at keeping a lid on violent crime than the dissolute anomie of Western urbanism? I don’t know, but this discrepancy has to be explained.

Note that 70% of prisoners in French jails are Muslim. Of course most French Muslims are from the Maghreb. Originally I thought there might be some scintilla of truth to liberal claims that this proves that France is structurally racist towards its Muslim minorities because I was aware that the countries where French Muslims come from aren’t that violent overall so it’s strange so many of them would be in jail. But if they acquire the criminological profiles of American Negroes on coming to Europe, then the preponderance of French Muslims in orange becomes perfectly explainable.

It also becomes easier to see why the latest wave of immigration has been such a shock to Europe and elicited such strong headlines in the right-wing press. The current wave of migrants into Germany and Europe tend to have rape rates around 5x the native German norm according to its own police statistics. Moreover, this refers to presumably established migrant communities – with relatively more women and older people – whereas the current influx has generally been acknowledged to be primarily composed of young males. This means it is entirely plausible for even relatively “small” numbers of those immigrants (the million or so who came into Germany in 2015) to have a hugely disproportionate impact on crime rates that would be noticeable even in a country of 80 million.

It’s the same with Chechnya in Russia. Chechens have a fearsome reputation of testosterone-overdosed, violence-prone brutes, and yet Chechnya itself ranks as the safest, lowest-crime region in the country, year after year.

It’s all about old, deeply-rooted traditional societal norms (including blood vengeance) that serve as violence breakers. Once an individual (or a group of individuals) is taken out of such a repressive matrix and transferred into a far more permissive environment, the behavior defaults to its natural, more unruly pattern.

If German stats are correct, Arabs may very well be naturally predisposed to violence, and can function peacefully only under the strictest rules (hence the tyranny in the Arab world, both governmental and religious).

Doc

I’ve wondered about the country of origin as the “compensator”. For example, in the Congo, the worst crime you can do is steal cattle. With the first offense, you are tattooed under the right arm, as to not be very visible to others. BUT, with a second offense, if they find the tattoo under the right arm, they amputate your right leg at the knee, sear the wound, and provide you with a crutch – you cannot run after cattle any more but can find gainful employment.
Way I look at it, the penalty of this country is fair but very severe. There jails are fairly empty.
Could the sharia law in most Middle Eastern countries attribute to lower crimes due to the severity of the punishments? (Saudi Arabia beheads women for infidelity) But, when the same individuals get to a far more lenient country that is NOT Muslim, I feel with less severe punishments (short jail terms and minimal fines are NOT beneficial) and with Muslim personal disdain for non-Muslims might explain the much higher crime rates in the EU.